Chicago – As a wee lad, I would often go into my parent’s record collection. One day, out of the blue, that brown double album with the gold embossed angels appeared, like a gift from the divine. “Jesus Christ Superstar” began as a record album “rock opera” in 1970, evolved to a Broadway show and film, and then was interpreted through a myriad of stage revivals over the years. The latest is an exciting piece of stagecraft at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The show has a various evening/matinee run through May 20th, 2018. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Play Rating: 5.0/5.0
In a sense, “Jcs” cannot miss, because at its core is the instantly memorable songs by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice. From the opening power chords to “Heaven on Their Minds,” “What’s the Buzz,” “Pilate’s Dream,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,...
Play Rating: 5.0/5.0
In a sense, “Jcs” cannot miss, because at its core is the instantly memorable songs by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice. From the opening power chords to “Heaven on Their Minds,” “What’s the Buzz,” “Pilate’s Dream,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,...
- 5/1/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sunday, January 8 at 4pm Smoke Jazz Club will presents a reading of Frank Christophers play Flutter Bys, a play that pushes the suspension of disbelief envelope. The comedy is set in turbulent New York circa 2001 and examines the lives of the ONeil family and the lives of their son Anthonys childhood friends. The show will star Michael Cunio, America Olivo, Christian Campbell, Lou Liberatore, Ann Dowd, Brian Kerwin, Lea DeLaria, Annette Hunt, Gerardo Gudino, Eric Michael Gillett and Cindy Cheung.
- 12/27/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Chicago Company of Jersey Boys welcomes three new, talented performers to the cast - Michael Cunio as Tommy DeVito, Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli and Shonn Wiley as Bob Gaudio. Wiley and Scaglione Jr. have already been welcomed by Chicago audiences to their new roles. Cunio is set to make his Jersey Boys debut in Chicago on April 24, 2009.
- 4/14/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Fluffer
Just for the record, in adult entertainment industry parlance a fluffer is somebody who helps a male porn star find, uh, motivation for a scene.
Enter "The Fluffer", essentially a gay "Boogie Nights" by way of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Letter From an Unknown Woman" that initially packs some potent wit before going all soft and melodramatic.
The rather abrupt, clunky tonal shift is doubly disappointing, because the film, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West, with a script by West, boasts a bright cast of familiar and fresh faces in addition to all that crisp, dry satire.
Despite not being all that it could be, the provocative title and setting (though most of the risque business is conducted discreetly just out of frame) should ensure that the picture generates some sturdy niche business.
New to Los Angeles and looking for work, boyish, naive Sean (Michael Cunio) spends lonely nights renting classic Hollywood movies and gets more than he bargains for when what was thought to be "Citizen Kane" turns out to be a gay porn version starring hypermasculine Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney).
Immediately smitten with the bad boy icon, Sean applies for work as a cameraman at the Men of Janus Production Company, where Johnny does his thing, and quickly finds himself doing double duty as his idol's fluffer of choice.
While Sean was hoping for something a little more meaningful, it turns out that Johnny, aka Mikey, is only "gay for pay" and prefers spending his off-work hours with his stripper girlfriend Babylon, aka Julie (Roxanne Day), when not bingeing with other females.
But Sean quietly holds out hope at the expense of his personal relationships, and when Johnny's life hits a downward spiral, he helps him hide out in Mexico -- and this is where "Fluffer" fluffs it.
Obviously West, a successful adult filmmaker, and Glatzer (whose series credits include "Divorce Court" and MTV's "Road Rules") have a lot of worthy things they want to say about sexuality and emotional contact, but they don't know how to integrate them into the film without disrupting the buoyant flow and pace.
Instead, they've more or less split the production right down the middle, and it's the spirited first half, with its sharply observed industry asides, that works best, especially for the game cast that also includes Robert Walden, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, Deborah Harry and Adina Porter.
Like one of its inspirations, the production could have used more Boogie and fewer murky Nights.
THE FLUFFER
First Run Features/TLA Releasing
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
Producers: John Sylla, Victoria Robinson
Screenwriter: Wash West
Executive producer: Rose Kuo
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Devorah Herbert
Editor: John Binninger
Costume designer: Gitte Meldgaard
Music: The Bowling Green, John Vaughn
Casting: Elizabeth Jereski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Rebel/Mikey: Scott Gurney
Babylon: Roxanne Day
Sean McGinnis: Michael Cunio
Marcella: Deborah Harry
Chad Cox: Robert Walden
Tony Brooks: Taylor Negron
Sam Martins: Richard Riehle
Alan Dieser: Tim Bagley
Silver: Adina Porter
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Enter "The Fluffer", essentially a gay "Boogie Nights" by way of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Letter From an Unknown Woman" that initially packs some potent wit before going all soft and melodramatic.
The rather abrupt, clunky tonal shift is doubly disappointing, because the film, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West, with a script by West, boasts a bright cast of familiar and fresh faces in addition to all that crisp, dry satire.
Despite not being all that it could be, the provocative title and setting (though most of the risque business is conducted discreetly just out of frame) should ensure that the picture generates some sturdy niche business.
New to Los Angeles and looking for work, boyish, naive Sean (Michael Cunio) spends lonely nights renting classic Hollywood movies and gets more than he bargains for when what was thought to be "Citizen Kane" turns out to be a gay porn version starring hypermasculine Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney).
Immediately smitten with the bad boy icon, Sean applies for work as a cameraman at the Men of Janus Production Company, where Johnny does his thing, and quickly finds himself doing double duty as his idol's fluffer of choice.
While Sean was hoping for something a little more meaningful, it turns out that Johnny, aka Mikey, is only "gay for pay" and prefers spending his off-work hours with his stripper girlfriend Babylon, aka Julie (Roxanne Day), when not bingeing with other females.
But Sean quietly holds out hope at the expense of his personal relationships, and when Johnny's life hits a downward spiral, he helps him hide out in Mexico -- and this is where "Fluffer" fluffs it.
Obviously West, a successful adult filmmaker, and Glatzer (whose series credits include "Divorce Court" and MTV's "Road Rules") have a lot of worthy things they want to say about sexuality and emotional contact, but they don't know how to integrate them into the film without disrupting the buoyant flow and pace.
Instead, they've more or less split the production right down the middle, and it's the spirited first half, with its sharply observed industry asides, that works best, especially for the game cast that also includes Robert Walden, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, Deborah Harry and Adina Porter.
Like one of its inspirations, the production could have used more Boogie and fewer murky Nights.
THE FLUFFER
First Run Features/TLA Releasing
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
Producers: John Sylla, Victoria Robinson
Screenwriter: Wash West
Executive producer: Rose Kuo
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Devorah Herbert
Editor: John Binninger
Costume designer: Gitte Meldgaard
Music: The Bowling Green, John Vaughn
Casting: Elizabeth Jereski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Rebel/Mikey: Scott Gurney
Babylon: Roxanne Day
Sean McGinnis: Michael Cunio
Marcella: Deborah Harry
Chad Cox: Robert Walden
Tony Brooks: Taylor Negron
Sam Martins: Richard Riehle
Alan Dieser: Tim Bagley
Silver: Adina Porter
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 7/8/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Fluffer
Just for the record, in adult entertainment industry parlance a fluffer is somebody who helps a male porn star find, uh, motivation for a scene.
Enter "The Fluffer", essentially a gay "Boogie Nights" by way of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Letter From an Unknown Woman" that initially packs some potent wit before going all soft and melodramatic.
The rather abrupt, clunky tonal shift is doubly disappointing, because the film, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West, with a script by West, boasts a bright cast of familiar and fresh faces in addition to all that crisp, dry satire.
Despite not being all that it could be, the provocative title and setting (though most of the risque business is conducted discreetly just out of frame) should ensure that the picture generates some sturdy niche business.
New to Los Angeles and looking for work, boyish, naive Sean (Michael Cunio) spends lonely nights renting classic Hollywood movies and gets more than he bargains for when what was thought to be "Citizen Kane" turns out to be a gay porn version starring hypermasculine Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney).
Immediately smitten with the bad boy icon, Sean applies for work as a cameraman at the Men of Janus production company, where Johnny does his thing, and quickly finds himself doing double duty as his idol's fluffer of choice.
While Sean was hoping for something a little more meaningful, it turns out that Johnny, aka Mikey, is only "gay for pay" and prefers spending his off-work hours with his stripper girlfriend Babylon, aka Julie (Roxanne Day), when not bingeing with other females.
But Sean quietly holds out hope at the expense of his personal relationships, and when Johnny's life hits a downward spiral, he helps him hide out in Mexico -- and this is where "Fluffer" fluffs it.
Obviously West, a successful adult filmmaker, and Glatzer (whose series credits include "Divorce Court" and MTV's "Road Rules") have a lot of worthy things they want to say about sexuality and emotional contact, but they don't know how to integrate them into the film without disrupting the buoyant flow and pace.
Instead, they've more or less split the production right down the middle, and it's the spirited first half, with its sharply observed industry asides, that works best, especially for the game cast that also includes Robert Walden, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, Deborah Harry and Adina Porter.
Like one of its inspirations, the production could have used more Boogie and fewer murky Nights.
THE FLUFFER
First Run Features/TLA Releasing
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
Producers: John Sylla, Victoria Robinson
Screenwriter: Wash West
Executive producer: Rose Kuo
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Devorah Herbert
Editor: John Binninger
Costume designer: Gitte Meldgaard
Music: The Bowling Green, John Vaughn
Casting: Elizabeth Jereski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Rebel/Mikey: Scott Gurney
Babylon: Roxanne Day
Sean McGinnis: Michael Cunio
Marcella: Deborah Harry
Chad Cox: Robert Walden
Tony Brooks: Taylor Negron
Sam Martins: Richard Riehle
Alan Dieser: Tim Bagley
Silver: Adina Porter
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Enter "The Fluffer", essentially a gay "Boogie Nights" by way of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Letter From an Unknown Woman" that initially packs some potent wit before going all soft and melodramatic.
The rather abrupt, clunky tonal shift is doubly disappointing, because the film, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West, with a script by West, boasts a bright cast of familiar and fresh faces in addition to all that crisp, dry satire.
Despite not being all that it could be, the provocative title and setting (though most of the risque business is conducted discreetly just out of frame) should ensure that the picture generates some sturdy niche business.
New to Los Angeles and looking for work, boyish, naive Sean (Michael Cunio) spends lonely nights renting classic Hollywood movies and gets more than he bargains for when what was thought to be "Citizen Kane" turns out to be a gay porn version starring hypermasculine Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney).
Immediately smitten with the bad boy icon, Sean applies for work as a cameraman at the Men of Janus production company, where Johnny does his thing, and quickly finds himself doing double duty as his idol's fluffer of choice.
While Sean was hoping for something a little more meaningful, it turns out that Johnny, aka Mikey, is only "gay for pay" and prefers spending his off-work hours with his stripper girlfriend Babylon, aka Julie (Roxanne Day), when not bingeing with other females.
But Sean quietly holds out hope at the expense of his personal relationships, and when Johnny's life hits a downward spiral, he helps him hide out in Mexico -- and this is where "Fluffer" fluffs it.
Obviously West, a successful adult filmmaker, and Glatzer (whose series credits include "Divorce Court" and MTV's "Road Rules") have a lot of worthy things they want to say about sexuality and emotional contact, but they don't know how to integrate them into the film without disrupting the buoyant flow and pace.
Instead, they've more or less split the production right down the middle, and it's the spirited first half, with its sharply observed industry asides, that works best, especially for the game cast that also includes Robert Walden, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, Deborah Harry and Adina Porter.
Like one of its inspirations, the production could have used more Boogie and fewer murky Nights.
THE FLUFFER
First Run Features/TLA Releasing
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
Producers: John Sylla, Victoria Robinson
Screenwriter: Wash West
Executive producer: Rose Kuo
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Devorah Herbert
Editor: John Binninger
Costume designer: Gitte Meldgaard
Music: The Bowling Green, John Vaughn
Casting: Elizabeth Jereski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Rebel/Mikey: Scott Gurney
Babylon: Roxanne Day
Sean McGinnis: Michael Cunio
Marcella: Deborah Harry
Chad Cox: Robert Walden
Tony Brooks: Taylor Negron
Sam Martins: Richard Riehle
Alan Dieser: Tim Bagley
Silver: Adina Porter
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/21/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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